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Gallentine, Jay

 
9780803234468: Infinity Beckoned: Adventuring Through the Inner Solar System, 1969–1989 (Outward Odyssey: a People's History of Spaceflight)
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ISBN 10: 0803234465 ISBN 13: 9780803234468
Editorial: University of Nebraska Press, 2016

Sinopsis

Infinity Beckoned illuminates a critical period of space history when humans dared an expansive leap into the inner solar system. With an irreverent and engaging style, Jay Gallentine conveys the trials and triumphs of the people on the ground who conceived and engineered the missions that put robotic spacecraft on the heavenly bodies nearest our own. These dedicated space pioneers include such individuals as Soviet Russia’s director of planetary missions, who hated his job but kept at it for fifteen years, enduring a paranoid bureaucracy where even the copy machines were strictly regulated.   Based on numerous interviews, Gallentine delivers a rich variety of stories involving the men and women, American and Russian, responsible for such groundbreaking endeavors as the Mars Viking missions of the 1970s and the Soviet Venera flights to Venus in the 1980s. From the dreamers responsible for the Venus landing who discovered that dropping down through heavy clouds of sulfuric acid and 900-degree heat was best accomplished by surfing to the five-man teams puppeteering the Soviet moon rovers from a top-secret, off-the-map town without a name, the people who come to life in these pages persevered in often trying, thankless circumstances. Their legacy is our better understanding of our own planet and our place in the cosmos.

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Jay Gallentine is a historian and filmmaker who has spent more than ten years researching the history of unmanned spaceflight. He is the author of Ambassadors from Earth: Pioneering Explorations with Unmanned Spacecraft (Nebraska, 2009), winner of the 2009 Eugene M. Emme Award for Astronautical Literature. Bobak Ferdowsi is a systems engineer from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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Editorial
University of Nebraska Press
Año de publicación
2016
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0803234465
ISBN 13 
9780803234468
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Número de páginas
496
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